WARNING! A TR tactic you need to know about.

[gonnagetyou]

Here's the deal for anyone who gets caught by the TR using this tactic.

You take 10 or more Pounders and Bursters, back them up with Engineers and Medics. You take over a Bio Laboratory. As soon as the hack is finished and the base is yours you move everyone to the room behind and next to the Spawn Room and wait for the NC or Vanu to hack the base. As soon as they hack the base you move everyone back into the CC and rehack. While someone rehacks the base all of your Pounders kill anyone trying to approach the CC by spamming shells against the two doors that lead to the CC. Engineers and Medics keep everyone healed. 5 guys covering each door ensure that not even another MAX will make it into the room

As soon as you resecure the base move everyone to the spawn room and let the engineers repair the equipment. Everyone reloads and moves back into the room next to the spawn tubes. Wait for the idiot NC and Vanu to rehack the base and then move everyone back to the CC so you can rehack and do it all over again.

No one really checks that back room and if they do you kill anyone poking their head in.

You can do this all night long or at least until the facility runs out of power.

You rack up mega kills for everyone and you get all the BEP from resecuring the base over and over again.

The idiot NC and Vanu never catch on unless of course Gonnagetyou is there and see's what's going down. He tries to get everyone to stop rehacking the base and concentrate on the spawn room and that back room while someone takes out the generator if they can. But, does anyone really listen. NO! They just keep throwing themselves at that damn CC feeding the Pounders. Oh eventully a few people get the idea, but by then the TR have accumulted 1000s of BEP without a single casualty.

I can see were this tactic will work in many other circumstances as will, but the Bio Laboratory seems to be the most ideal.

This is one tactic no other empire can duplicate. I saw this happen before the TR MAX nerf, but it hasn't made it less effective. I'm not sure who the group is using this, but they are on Markov and both times I've seen it happen it was late at night and they controlled the southern most Bio Lab on Amerish. Late at night they know they will be up against small opposition and they can rake in the BEP before calling it quits for the night.

The best tactis against it is to concentrate on destroying base equipment and wait for the base to go neutral. Don't even go down to feed them BEP and wait for them to get bored. That's my advice anyway. With enough people you could overwhelm them I suppose, but you'd just be doing what they want you to do.